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Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information on January 7, 2008 that Akash, a human rights defender as well as journalist, has been facing several allegedly ...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the case of Kalidas Ghosh, a 17-year-old boy who was killed by the Border Security Force (BSF) stationed at th...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following statement by the Rt. Revd. Duleep de Chickera, Bishop of Colombo. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding an alleged dowry death of a woman in South 24 Parganas district, W...

 the Sunday Leader issueThe Editor Sunday Leader Newspaper Leader Publications (Pvt) Ltd. 98, Ward Place, Colombo 7 Sri LankaFax : +94-75-365891 – email : editor@thesundayleader.lk Dear Sir, T...

Mr. Salim Baloch, a political leader of the southern province of Balochistan was rearrested by secret service personnels after recording a statement in the Sindh High Court on 31 December 2006, in whi...

The following was initially delivered as a talk given by Mr. John J. Clancey, Chairperson of the Asian Human Rights Commission to the priests of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong on January 4, 2007 Wh...

The Asian Human Rights Commission wishes to forward by way of this statement, a report sent to President Rajapaksa by the Bishop of Mannar on the killing of innocent civilians in an aerial bombardment...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed by the Advocacy Forum, a local human rights organization in Nepal, of the alleged rape of a mentally deficient woman by an army...

Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received the information that Mr. Salim Baloch, the acting president of Jamhoori Watan Party was allegedly abducted once again by secret serv...

[NOTICE: The AHRC have developed a new automatic letter-sending system using the “button” below. However, in this appeal, we could not include e-mail addresses of some of the Cambodian aut...

(Sunday Leader December 31, 2006) I am writing this to clarify misinformation contained in an article entitled ‘Targeting CBK and LTTE’s southern gift’, by Dilrukshi Handunnetti, whi...

AS-321-2006 December 29, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: New Year’s Wish List for 2007 1. That fundamental rights guaranteed in the Constitution be fully honour...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that legal action has been taken against 12 lawyers practicing in the Supreme Court, including three top lawyers who are...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  AS-323-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assu...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AS-320-2006 December 27, 2006 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission BANGLADESH: Sedition charges against leading Bangladesh lawyers involved in writ challenging assump...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is deeply concerned by gross negligence of the part of the High Court of Sindh on persons who are believed to be illegally detained in the milita...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has been informed that a 17-year-old student of the Rahula National School was brutally assaulted by a school health and physical training teache...

In a feature entitled Review Essay – Targeting the NGO sector, The Island December 22, 2006, I found the following reference. “The Chairman of the seminar was a lawyer who I knew as a memb...

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from its local partner MASUM in West Bengal regarding the death of a man due to custodial negligence in the state of Wes...